PERSIA: Brand New Navy

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Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, "King of Kings," itched with
impatience last week to take delivery of the first effective Navy which
Persia has ever had. Built complete in Italy for the dirt-cheap price
of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats
mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four
smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying
Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for
the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new
ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed and...